ART OF LIVING AND FRENCH
REFINEMENT IN PARIS
By Laurent Delporte
Welcoming friends, family, clients,
partners—all of these form occasions
for an exchange of sensual and
intellectual pleasures that, in France,
bring out the best in standards,
beauty, refinement, rituals, and
sophistication, not to mention
lightheartedness, excellence, and
courtesy.
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This page is aimed at sharing the
various codes, customs, signs,
symbols, and distinctly French
principles that abound in the hotel
industry. We have come to inherit
an expertise and a way of living
that we continue to adapt—while
blurring lines between tradition and
modernity—in the pursuit of bringing
pleasure to our guests in the setting
of an event, be it for a party of 2 or a
party of 500!
What remains important above all is
the ability to bring pleasure, surprise
one’s guest, and provide him with the
very best by drawing on a wealth of
small and careful attentions. Nothing
can be left to chance if you want
to assure that your event is at once